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- List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: ...eter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
13: *[[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [...
14: ...ronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
5: ==Ascension to the throne==
7: ...nemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
10: ... articles that limited her power. However, these proved a minor inconvenience to her, and soon she est...
17: ...y [[police]], which she used to intimidate and terrorize those who opposed her and her policies. Altho... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
36: ...s|U.S. Census]]). Georgia is one of the fastest growing states in the nation, with an estimated 8,829...
40: ...he [[state flower]] is the [[cherokee rose]] (''[[Rosa laevigata]]'').
50: ...at what was by then a British colony be called [[Province of Georgia]] in honor of King [[George II of...
52: ...bserved in [[school]]s and by some local [[civic group]]s.
54: ...e Sea]]. This event served as the historical background for the book and movie ''[[Gone With the Wind]... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...wton's laws of motion|laws of motion]], laid the groundwork for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also s...
4: ...n the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th century]].
19: .... As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else....
25: ...ater life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.
29: ...thod" were superior, and were generally adopted throughout the English-speaking world. (Curiously, in ... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
3: ...eline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1700]] to [[1759]]'''.
7: ...2]] - [[East Jersey]] and [[west Jersey]] become crown colonies
13: ...[[Province of Carolina]] proprietors sell out to Crown
16: *[[1733]] - [[Province of Georgia]] founded.
45: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=H... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ... Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]] each came to the new co...
4: ...features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different ...
8: ===Europe===
9: ...ring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...lear that the first nation to find a direct trade route to the [[East Indies|"Indies"]] would benefit ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German invento...
28: *[[Heinrich Caro]], (1834-1910), German chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Zinc (12445 bytes)
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | '''Zn'''<br>[[Cadmium|...
23: | [[periodic table group|Group]], [[periodic table period|Period]], [[periodic...
24: | [[group 12 element|12]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[d-bl...
32: ..."2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Atomic properties'''
46: | [[Electron configuration]] - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: '''François-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30...
8: ...etimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relation...
12: ...the basis of his considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...oor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
5: ...eventeen years of his life, during which time he produced almost half of his total output.
7: The [[asteroid]] [[2002 Euler]] is named in his honour.
12: .... Euler was the first to publish a systematic introduction to [[mechanics]] in [[1736]]: ''Mechanica ...
14: In [[1733]] he married Katharina Gsell, the daughter of the...
16: ...es]] in [[Berlin]]. His time in Berlin was very productive; however, he did not have an easy position... - Crow (4780 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color=pink | name=Typical crows and allies}}
14: ...Kyo.jpg|thumb|''Crow on a branch'', Maruyama Kyo (1733-1795)]]
15: ...anced ravens. One species, the [[New Caledonian Crow]], has recently been intensively studied because...
19: ...America]] (including [[Mexico]]), [[Africa]], [[Europe]], and [[Australia]].
21: They range in size from the relatively small [[Dove|pigeon]]-sized [[jac... - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
2: ...istinction of [[chemistry]] from [[alchemy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''The Skeptical Chymist''...
3: ....jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
5: [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
8: ...ore had an organic [[compound]] been synthesized from inorganic material. This opened a new research f...
12: ...gation of [[Einstein]]'s atomic explanation of [[Brownian motion]] in the first decade of the [[20th c... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...rs to the [[century]] that lasted from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].
5: ...nd the start of the [[French Revolution]]. In [[Europe]], the principal nations of this period (in ter...
9: ...way from the west and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Spain.
11: ..., where civil war enabled the British to take control of the entire sub-continent.
13: ...isual arts, the [[Rococo]] style replaced the [[Baroque]], then was succeeded by the [[Neoclassical]] ... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar...
4: ...Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[177...
6: ...in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the Fre...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Successi...
14: ...thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], English general.]] - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
4: ...[[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
12: * [[1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle...
15: * [[1752]]: [[Lightning rod]]: [[Benjamin Franklin]]
16: * [[1762]]: [[Iron smelting process]]: [[Jared Eliot]]
24: * [[1779]]: [[Spinning mule]]: [[Samuel Crompton]] - Flying shuttle (5068 bytes)
2: ... It was patented by [[John Kay]] (1704 - 1764) in 1733.
5: ...ic exceeds that which can be reasonably reached across (typically {{convert|60|in|cm}} or less).
8: ...have sufficient inertia to carry it all the way through the shed.
10: ...e shed is opened as before; however, instead of throwing the shuttle, the operator jerks the cord for ...
12: ...t was simplified with the invention of the [[Northrop Loom]], which reloaded the shuttle automatically...
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